SAP Ariba Central Procurement

Effective, center-led procurement requires visibility and control over company-wide spend across multiple ERP systems.
SAP Ariba Central Procurement dashboard

What is SAP Ariba Central Procurement?

It's a procurement command center that provides control over requisitioning, purchasing, sourcing, and contracts through a single user interface.

Central requisition management in the private cloud edition of SAP Ariba Central Procurement
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Data is unified and procurement processes are orchestrated across multiple ERP systems—without the cost or complexity of changing them.

  • Native integration with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Ariba solutions

  • Standard APIs for third-party ERP integration

  • A clear view of requisitions, orders, spending, and payments

  • Global control and visibility while transacting in local ERP systems

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Key benefits

Achieve companywide visibility

Orchestrate core procurement activities from a single, centralized command center and provide visibility into purchasing processes based on roles and permissions.

Gain a clear view of spending

Get a comprehensive and accurate view of demand, requisitions, orders, and spend, supporting compliance, more-effective negotiations, and demand aggregation.

Improve productivity

Reduce redundancy and bring global consistency to key steps of the procurement process without disrupting day-to-day work and systems within each business unit.

Reduce procurement costs

Efficiently aggregate company-wide demands to leverage purchasing power and ensure compliance with globally negotiated contracts, preventing value leakage.

Guard against market fluctuations

Implement index-based contract pricing to mitigate risks from commodity market volatility.

Enforce policies and best practices

Effectively enforce supply-assurance policies and sustainability best practices through centrally governed contracts.

Streamline supplier engagement

Leverage a center-led model to effectively manage strategic relationships, driving cost savings and fostering innovation.

Mitigate talent risks

Organize for economies of skill by deploying scarce talents on high-impact categories and strategic activities.

Accelerate S/4HANA transformation

Realize short-term savings to fund your ERP transformation program.

Key features

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All-in-one command center

  • Centralize compliance, process control, approval workflows, and document output using a single procurement command center

  • Deliver global control and visibility while transacting in local back-end systems​

  • Manage procurement responsibilities centrally

Unified requisitioning experience

  • Free up purchasers’ time by reducing repetitive tasks through a powerful automation framework

  • Create requisitions centrally for all connected back ends using the guided buying capability in SAP Ariba solutions

  • Harmonize workflows for approvals, confirmations, and returns

Central demand aggregation

  • Aggregate and bundle requisitions to take advantage of better volume pricing

  • Create and publish central RFQs from external PRs

  • Generate follow-on back-end POs or central contracts from quotations

Enterprise contract orchestration

  • Negotiate and monitor global contracts for legal entities across your enterprise

  • Orchestrate operational contracts for direct and indirect materials company-wide and distribute details to back-end ERPs for local execution

  • Enable contract distribution at a header or line-item level

Central analytics

  • Monitor the health of your procurement process for continuous process improvement

  • Track central purchase contract consumption and global spend

  • Drill down to get a quick and accurate look at operational details and monitor requisition metrics, such as cycle times and touchless rates

Pricing

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SAP Ariba Central Procurement

  • Included:

    • Ability for procurement teams to work across multiple ERP systems, global organizations, and divisions as a shared service.
    • Integration with multiple ERP systems (both SAP and non-SAP) so the lead buyer or category manager can see what’s happening across the business without entering and exiting multiple systems.

  • Metric:

    • The metric has a yearly entitlement and depletes with usage.

  • Price upon request:

    • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.
  • In blocks of 100000000 Spend per year
  • Contract duration 3 to 5 years
  • Auto-renewal

  • Included:

    • Ability for procurement teams to work across multiple ERP systems, global organizations, and divisions as a shared service.
    • Integration with multiple ERP systems (both SAP and non-SAP) so the lead buyer or category manager can see what’s happening across the business without entering and exiting multiple systems.

  • Metric:

    • The metric has a yearly entitlement and depletes with usage.

  • Price upon request:

    • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.

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Frequently asked questions

Get answers to your questions about SAP Ariba Central Procurement.

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Connect different aspects of your business

Learn how SAP Ariba Central Procurement is like a remote control for procurement.

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Technical and security information

Discover how our cloud solutions fuel your spend strategy with SAP Business Technology Platform and protect your enterprise with built-in security.

Visibility

Unlock spend data with solutions that deliver total spend visibility, aid in planning and forecasting, and connect critical data from SAP and third-party sources.

Extensibility

Customize and extend the value of spend management solutions by eliminating inefficiencies, building new apps, enhancing existing apps, and providing personalized experiences.

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Integration

Centralize data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streaming your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.

AI guidance with SAP Ariba Central Procurement in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

AI-driven material-group recommendations help you improve purchasing efficiency, as well as data consistency and accuracy.

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In the video, see how procurement teams use AI to:

  • Make better purchasing decisions faster in a simplified, optimized process

  • Identify correct material groups with AI-generated corrections of purchase requests

  • Save time and effort across business teams with recommendation alerts

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